Improvement in suspension-hooks for chandeliers



/ G. W. WOODWARDJ SUSPENSION-HOOKS FOR CHANDELIERS.

No. 193,5 5,, Pate pted July 24,1877.

Mhzames N. PETERS, PHOTOVLITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON n c UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. WOODWARD, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

lMPROVEMENT IN SUSPENSION-HOOKS FOR CHANDELIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,585, dated July 24,1877 application filed May 1, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. W001)- WARD, ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York. have invented anImprovement in Suspension Devices for Chandeliers and other Articles;and -I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawing, forming part of this specification.

My invention has for its object the prevention of the turning ofchandeliers or other suspended articles on their vertical axes out ofthe position in which they are suspended.

In case of a chandelier, for instance, having two burners or lampsplaced on opposite sides of a supporting rod or tube, when suchchandelier is supported by an ordinary round hook engaged in an ordinaryround eye, currents of air or other slight disturbing causes frequentlyturn the burners or lamps out of the vertical plane in which it isdesired to suspend them.

This defect is prevented in a very'siinple and efl'ective manner by myinvention, which consists in a suspending hook or eye having itsinterior bearing surface composed of planes which converge toward eachother, in such manner that said planes support a curved ring or hookplaced between them at four .points instead of one, as is .the case whena ring or hook made of a round rod or bar is supported by a similar ringor hook.

Figure 1 in the drawing is a side view of a hook constructed accordingto my invention, and designed for either horizontal or verticalinsertion. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, on the line aw in Fig. 1.Fig. 3 is a side view of such a hook inserted horizontally. Fig. 4 is aside view of an eye constructed according to my invention.

A, Figs. 1 and 2, represents a hook, and B the shank of the same, forinsertion in a coiling, side wall, or other support; Said hook hasformed on its interior the plane surfaces 0 c c. The planes 0 and cconverge toward each other, and the planes 0 and c likewise convergetoward each other. When said hook is inserted vertically in its support,the

In applying the invention to an eye I may use four planes, 0 c c c, asshown in Fig. 4, in which 0 represents such an eye, having the saidplanes arranged in quadrilateral relation.

In this form the supporting device may be used, either vertically orhorizontally, and it is reversible, each of the apexes between any twoof the planes forming a support in ac cordance with my invention.

It is not essential that the converging planes should meet, provided therings or hook they are designed to support is large enough to restagainst two converging planes.

A staple may be made with a bearing-surface of converging planes, aswell as an eye, ring, or hook, and the invention is as applicable to astaple as to a hook.

I claim- A suspending device for chandeliers, consisting of a hookhaving two or more bearing-surfaces formed by the converging planes onits interior surface, to adapt said hook to be used in either a verticalor horizontal position.

GEORGE W. WOODWARD.

Witnesses:

BENJAMIN W, HOFFMAN, FRED. HAYNES.

